Coronavirus live ticker: +++ 03:55 Italy expands 2G and 3G rules +++

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In Italy, stricter corona guidelines come into force today. The 2G rule now applies in many areas of public life; only those who have been vaccinated and Genesis are allowed to eat indoors, for example, in restaurants, to the cinema, partying in discos and to football matches in the stadium. The rules should initially apply until January 15th. Another innovation is the extension of the 3G rule to local public transport and hotels. Important for winter sports holidaymakers: 3G applies in closed lifts and gondolas, in huts only vaccinated and convalescent are allowed.

+++ 03:01 Pharmacists Association: Bottlenecks in rapid tests persist +++
The North Rhine Pharmacists’ Association expects shortages of corona rapid tests for weeks. “Corona tests are often scarce. An end to the delivery bottlenecks is not yet in sight,” says association boss Thomas Preis “Rheinischen Post”. “Currently the numbers in the test centers are increasing by ten percent a week. December will be the month with the most citizen tests.” The sale of self-tests is also increasing. At the same time, there are supply problems: Freight options from the Far East are limited, and clearance at customs takes a long time. “So far, many tests have been on sale as special approvals. These special approvals are no longer being extended. This also creates further bottlenecks.”

+++ 02:12 Saxony’s interior minister wants “rapid trials” in the event of violations of corona measures +++
After the torchlight procession initiated by right-wing extremists in front of the private house of Saxony’s Minister of Health, Petra Köpping, Saxony’s Minister of the Interior, Roland Wöller, is calling for stricter measures against “lateral thinkers”. The march was “an attack on democracy,” said Wöller of the “Bild” newspaper. He called for “rapid trials to punish violations of the corona protective measures immediately and rigorously,” said the CDU politician. “Something like that can’t just happen weeks later.” Wöller also calls for a change in the law in order to be able to act more sharply against hate posts in Internet services such as “Telegram”.

+++ 01:44 doctors representatives for more vaccination offers on weekends +++
Doctors’ representatives are calling for more vaccination offers on the weekends. “People have time on Saturday and Sunday and would be boosted in much larger numbers if they didn’t have to stand in line in the cold for hours,” says Susanne Johna, chairwoman of the Marburger Bund doctors’ union, the newspapers of the Funke media group. “One must now spare no expense and effort in promoting the vaccination campaign.” It is absolutely right to get around 30 million vaccinations by Christmas. But that can only succeed if the distribution of the vaccine works better, other vaccination centers are reactivated and “we also vaccinate as much as we can at the weekend.”

+++ 00:40 Weil brings New Years calm into the game +++
Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil wants to speak at the next Prime Minister’s Conference about further contact restrictions for vaccinated people for the period after Christmas. “It is clear that there will be numerous family contacts over Christmas. Experience has shown that they will cause a number of infections again. It is therefore worth considering whether the associated infection dynamics should not be alleviated by a limited break,” says Because the “world”. In the end, you have to make the decision dependent on the development of the infection and the situation in the intensive care units.

+++ 23:44 Lauterbach: Boosters the most important remedy against Omikron +++
The SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach considers rapid vaccination to be the most urgent in the fight against the spread of the omicron variant mutant. “The next four weeks are crucial,” he says on the ARD program “Anne Will”. Those who have been vaccinated and recovered are also at risk from Omikron. “The fastest possible booster vaccination is the most important thing we can do.” Lauterbach reaffirms his position that a mandatory vaccination is important in order to get out of the “hamster wheel”. He does not assume that a lockdown will be necessary again. But it is not serious to rule this out.

+++ 22:54 Söder defends strict restrictions +++
Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder defends the tightened measures in the fight against Corona. The CSU politician said on the ARD program “Anne Will” that the incidence in Bavaria was reduced last week. Contact reductions such as closing bars, discos and Christmas markets as well as ghost games during sports would have helped. Söder admits, however, with a view to the interventions: “Contact restrictions are the hardest.” The FDP domestic politician Konstantin Kuhle explains that the current contact restrictions should be sufficient. Should this change, one has to improve. At the moment there will be no absolute lockdown with the traffic light coalition. One will try to avoid this by all means.

+++ 22:19 police dissolve illegal party with 75 guests in Neubrandenburg +++
The police broke up an illegal music and dance party in Neubrandenburg. As a police spokesman for the city said, around 75 men and women gathered in a barrack on a former industrial site in the Ihlenfeld suburb on Sunday night. A witness had called the officers about the noise. Such leisure events are currently prohibited in the Mecklenburg Lake District due to the persistently high number of corona infections. According to the police spokesman, the organizer had to dismantle everything and is now responsible for violating the Corona state ordinance.

+++ 21:53 Beatrix von Storch was infected with Corona +++
The deputy chairman of the AfD parliamentary group, Beatrix von Storch, is in quarantine after a positive corona test. “On Friday I received a positive PCR test result and immediately went to the mandatory 14-day quarantine,” wrote the 50-year-old on Facebook. Von Storch did not disclose any details about her health. After infections, the chairmen of the AfD parliamentary group, Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, had already gone into quarantine.

+++ 21:26 traffic light wants to allow countries to continue to close restaurants +++
The traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP want to enable the closure of restaurants and leisure facilities, especially those affected by the pandemic. This is based on a draft to amend the Infection Protection Act available to the Reuters news agency, which is to be discussed in the Bundestag next week. In the amended Paragraph 28a, the draft states that the closure of businesses, businesses, retail and wholesale businesses will continue to be prohibited “unless they are catering facilities, leisure or cultural facilities or trade fairs or congresses”. Several federal states had demanded that they should also be able to close restaurants. According to the traffic light draft, the precondition for the application of the strict measures is that the state parliaments of the respective countries resolve this beforehand.

+++ 21:08 traffic light parties want from March 16 compulsory vaccination for nurses +++
The traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP want to introduce compulsory corona vaccination for staff in facilities for particularly vulnerable people from March 16. This is based on a draft to amend the Infection Protection Act available to the Reuters news agency, which is to be discussed in the Bundestag next week. “To protect public health and vulnerable groups of people from COVID-19 disease, it is stipulated that people working in certain facilities and companies must be vaccinated or recovered or have a medical certificate stating that there is a contraindication to vaccination against COVID-19.” According to the draft. Employees who are already employed must submit proof of this by March 15. “From March 16, 2022, new employment relationships can only be entered into if appropriate evidence is presented,” it continues.

+++ 20:41 Virologist: First findings on Omikron are “somewhat encouraging” +++
According to the US expert Anthony Fauci, initial findings on the new omicron variant of the coronavirus do not indicate more severe disease courses. The new variant is spreading quickly in South Africa, said President Joe Biden’s top corona advisor in an interview with CNN. The variant has a “transfer advantage”. According to the current status, however, it does not look like Omikron will cause a particularly serious Covid 19 disease. “So far the signals are a little encouraging,” said Fauci. But it is still too early to make a final assessment.

+++ 20:05 In Austria the trend of new infections is declining, in the Netherlands not +++
In Germany, the debate about the effect of various lockdown measures is raging, especially with a view to the Christmas season. Austria and the Netherlands already passed new rules in November, albeit different: Austria went into a tough lockdown on November 22nd, which also applies to vaccinated people. There the 7-day trend of new infections is declining.

The Netherlands acted much more cautiously. So they first reintroduced the mask requirement. The following week, on November 13, the partial or evening lockdown followed. This should last three weeks and essentially means that bars and restaurants had to close earlier. On November 26th it was sharpened, the curfew was brought forward from 8 p.m. to 5 p.m. and the lockdown was extended. However, the 7-day trend of new infections is hardly going back there.

+++ 19:34 Current data situation in Germany: 37,700 new cases reported +++
The number of reported coronavirus infections in Germany has risen to 6,169,972. As can be seen from the information from the state authorities evaluated by ntv.de, 37,700 new cases were added. This means that today’s reporting volume is 6 percent below the previous week’s level. Last Sunday, the state authorities reported a total of 40,123 new corona cases nationwide.

The number of infection-related deaths rose 85 to 103,046. Around 950,406 people are currently infected. That corresponds to well over one percent of the total population in Germany.

The infection rate (7-day R-value) is given by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) as 0.96 (previous day: 0.98). According to the DIVI Intensive Care Register, 4824 Covid 19 patients are currently being treated in intensive care in Germany, 2570 of whom are invasively ventilated. Around 3,305 intensive care beds are currently still available in the German clinics.

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